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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

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Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.

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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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What you hope for, you also fear.

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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.

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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

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War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

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Anything we love can be saved.

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Healing begins where the wound was made.

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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

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